Showing posts with label changes in coronavirus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label changes in coronavirus. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Whadya mean reinfection?

News blues

This Covid graph shows your chances of reinfection within nine months
Aubree Gordon, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, …estimated each person would catch Covid again around every three years.
She said: “Barring some intervention that really changes the landscape, we will all get SARS-CoV-2 multiple times in our life.”
This is roughly in line with how often people become reinfected with flu viruses and the seasonal colds which make a reappearance every winter.
Read more >> 
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Efforts to update Covid vaccines can't keep up with changes in the virus. New variants appear to be even more immune-resistant than the original Omicron strain, raising the possibility that even retooled vaccines could be outdated by the time they become available this fall >> 
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On war

Photos from the front lines in Ukraine >> 
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The Lincoln Project:
Donald Trump Visits The NRA  (1:12 mins)
The Republican Army  (1:15 mins)
Last week in the Republican Party - May 31, 2022  (2:02 mins)
Doug Mastriano is Dangerous  (0:58 mins)

Healthy planet, anyone?

The Bramble Cay melomys became the first mammal lost to the climate crisis >> 

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

Ditto: Bus to work … work, work, work … bus back home. Walk, walk, walk… it’s sunny and breezy out along the bay.
The murder of crows assaults my hearing. But what would I – and the beach, the bay, the environment – do without them? They belong here. Same as I do.